Seat slipping

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:08:02 GMT, "Ross" <[email hidden]> may

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Any suggestions on how to prevent my seat from slipping back on the seatpost? I pulled my Selle
Italia Flite out of storage to out on a Dura Ace seat post and the last several rides the dang
thing slips back in the rails. Maybe rough up the rails a little so it grabs the clamp? Didn't have
this problem with my Selle Italia Turbo4 but that seat had a coating on the rails. Any ideas would
be great.

Cut a piece of coke can and shim the rails so the clamp gets a harder bite?

Loctite on the rails?

File down the faces of the clamp a bit so that the clamp gets a harder bite?

Lay a few pieces of very thin copper wire in the channels of the clamp, same effect as the Coke can
but easier to do?

Somebody else will probably have the one true answer, this is just the stuff I could think of right
off the top of my head.

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Werehatrack said:

Ross' may have said:

Any suggestions on how to prevent my seat from slipping back on the seatpost? I pulled my Selle
Italia Flite out of storage to out on a Dura Ace seat post and the last several rides the dang
thing slips back in the rails. Maybe rough up the rails a little so it grabs the clamp? Didn't
have this problem with my Selle Italia Turbo4 but that seat had a coating on the rails. Any ideas
would be great.

Cut a piece of coke can and shim the rails so the clamp gets a harder bite?

Loctite on the rails?

File down the faces of the clamp a bit so that the clamp gets a harder bite?

Lay a few pieces of very thin copper wire in the channels of the clamp, same effect as the Coke can
but easier to do?

Somebody else will probably have the one true answer, this is just the stuff I could think of right
off the top of my head.

Recently someone mentioned using a piece of thin inner tube rubber as a shim material to stop the
Flite from going backwards.

I have used a small hose clamp on one of the rails in the past, which stopped the slipping. Not very
attractive, but it worked.

I wonder if using a cold chisel to put small risers in the rail would be dangerous. I've done
with this steel in a non-bicycle application, a cheap and crude way of knurling the surface. I
don't know how titanium would react to this treatment, and I have no idea if this would seriously
weaken the rail.

I'd try the inner tube idea first.

MIG it.

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Any suggestions on how to prevent my seat from slipping back on the seatpost? I pulled my Selle
Italia Flite out of storage to out on a Dura Ace seat post and the last several rides the dang
thing slips back in the rails. Maybe rough up the rails a little so it grabs the clamp? Didn't

have

Quoted message said:

this problem with my Selle Italia Turbo4 but that seat had a coating on

the

Quoted message said:

rails. Any ideas would be great.

Thanks!

Ross

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:14:37 GMT, "DDB" <[email hidden]> may

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MIG it.

Al to CrMo? Not likely to work too well.

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fine then ......Industrial adhesive... my anal friend.

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MIG it.

Al to CrMo? Not likely to work too well.

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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:05:43 GMT, "DDB" <[email hidden]> may

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fine then ......Industrial adhesive... my anal friend.

I had thought about suggesting glue, but decided that it was too obvious. (Loctite bearing mount was
what I'd considered. It would probably work for a while, too.)

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I wonder if using a cold chisel to put small risers in the rail would be dangerous. I've done with
this steel in a non-bicycle application, a cheap and crude way of knurling the surface. I don't
know how titanium would react to this treatment, and I have no idea if this would seriously weaken
the rail.

It would, these rails are none too strong to begin with. A shim is harmless.